Publications & Resources

Academic freedom-related reports, guidelines, scholarly works and other resources by Scholars at Risk and its partners

Summary Report on Activities 2016-2017

The Summary Report on Activities is the first installment outlining SAR’s annual activities for the fiscal year spanning September 1, 2016 – August 31, 2017. It covers the growth of our global network and our core work in protection, advocacy, and research & learning (values-promotion). A financial summary

Free to Think 2017

Free to Think 2017 is the third installment in SAR’s reporting of attacks on higher education communities, analyzing 257 reported attacks on higher education communities in 35 countries, from September 1, 2016, to August 31, 2017. “Over the past year, we

Free to Think 2016

Free to Think 2016 is the second installment in SAR’s reporting of attacks on higher education communities, analyzing more than 150 reported attacks on higher education communities in 35 countries, from May 1, 2015 to September 1, 2016. “In the

Principles of State Responsibility to Protect Higher Education from Attack

In 2014, the Global Coalition to Protect Education from Attack (GCPEA) developed and sought wide recognition of a statement of Principles of State Responsibility to Protect Higher Education from Attack. The primary purpose of the Principles is not to create

Education Under Attack 2014

“Education Under Attack 2014” identifies 70 countries where attacks occurred between 2009 and 2013, including 30 where there was a pattern of deliberate attacks.

Institutional Autonomy and the Protection of Higher Education from Attack

A research study of the Higher Education Working Group of the Global Coalition to Protect Education from Attack

Intellectual-HRDs and claims for academic freedom under human rights law

This article argues that existing human rights law would sustain claims for violations of academic freedom as independently and interdependently derived from the rights to freedom of opinion and expression and the right to education. This article argues that including

Publications & Resources

Summary Report on Activities 2016-2017

Free to Think 2017

Free to Think 2016

Principles of State Responsibility to Protect Higher Education from Attack

Education Under Attack 2014

Institutional Autonomy and the Protection of Higher Education from Attack

Intellectual-HRDs and claims for academic freedom under human rights law

Lessons in War 2015: Military Use of Schools and Universities during Armed Conflict

Free to Think: a Report of the Academic Freedom Monitoring Project

2014 Global Congress Report

Courage to Think Monologues

The University and the Nation